WKSK’S Old Time and Bluegrass Show Returns LIVE to the Ashe Civic Center!
Saturday, November 16
“Just a little after eleven”
Featuring the Sheets Family Band with Host Tom Hartman
Free & Open to the Public, 11 AM.
We’re excited to host the Old Time and Bluegrass Radio Show at the Ashe Civic Center once a month on Saturday morning at 11 AM. This event is free and open to the public, with donations gratefully accepted.
The Sheets Famiy Band is from western North Carolina. Celebrated for their harmony singing and energetic instrumentals, they embody the values of homemade and homegrown music and lifestyle. Their unique old time mountain style takes inspiration from the music of the Appalachian Mountains and beyond. You’ll hear a variety of lively fiddle tunes, songs from the area, rich in tradition, and original songs so honest and haunting that they evoke “the goose-bump effect” . Rooted in a belief that music is an essential part of life, they invite you to join them.
Joining the Sheets Family Band is Cecil Gurganus who has been an active member of Watauga County’s old-time music and dance community since the 1970s, organizing and playing music for square dances, giving presentations in local schools on traditional music, and mentoring and teaching. He has been an instructor at the Swannanoa Gathering‘s Old-Time Music Week at Warren Wilson College, and he teaches in the Junior Appalachian Musicians programs in Watauga and Ashe counties.
